Our latest Blog post, written by former @uniinnsbruck student Lennart Wieser and winner of the 2024 DiSC Award, is about the feasibility of biomarker research with hair strands for #depression. To this end, he analyzed metabolites from 32 hair samples with uni- and multivariate methods regarding differences between depressed and non-depressed individuals. Read more here: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/blog/diagnosing-depression/
#Psychology #DataScience #uibk
29.4.2025 13:50Our latest Blog post, written by former @uniinnsbruck student Lennart Wieser and winner of the 2024 DiSC Award, is about the feasibility of...Looking for something to read during the Easter holidays? A new DiSC Blog post demonstrates how hints could mitigate the impact of #LLMs on declining users’ cognitive skills by promoting active learning. Check it out: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/blog/mitigating-cognitive-decline/
Happy Easter! 🐰
16.4.2025 09:16Looking for something to read during the Easter holidays? A new DiSC Blog post demonstrates how hints could mitigate the impact of #LLMs on...📢 Don't miss today's #DiSCourseSeminar with Roberto Viviani at 12:00! 📢
Topic: Using Large Language Models to Teach Statistics
Join us at DiSC, Innrain 15, 6020 Innsbruck or on Big Blue Button: https://webconference.uibk.ac.at/b/car-aab-cxf-o81
More info: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-viviani/
#LLMs #statistics #AI #education #teaching
11.4.2025 07:00📢 Don't miss today's #DiSCourseSeminar with Roberto Viviani at 12:00! 📢Topic: Using Large Language Models to Teach...We're looking forward to having Roberto Viviani, Professor of Psychology, as a guest speaker at our next #DiSCourseSeminar. Join us on 11 April, 12:00 (CEST) for his talk on Using Large Language Models to Teach Statistics!
Learn more: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-viviani/
#LLMs #statistics #teaching #education #AI
8.4.2025 11:21We're looking forward to having Roberto Viviani, Professor of Psychology, as a guest speaker at our next #DiSCourseSeminar. Join us on...The countdown is on: ⏰
You have one more week to apply for this year's #DiSCAward, sponsored by BE-terna.
You wrote a master's or doctoral thesis related to digitalization at @uniinnsbruck in the past 12 months? Submit your application now: https://uibk.ac.at/en/research/research-funding/postdoc/disc-award/
#DigitalScience #Research #digitalization #DigitalMethods #DigitalTransformation
27.3.2025 18:05The countdown is on: ⏰You have one more week to apply for this year's #DiSCAward, sponsored by BE-terna.You wrote a master's or...Für alle Videospielfans und jene, die es noch werden wollen: die Forschungsgruppe Game Studies der @uniinnsbruck lädt zur interaktiven Spielung mit
Diskussion!
📢 Licht-Spiel-Haus: Outer Wilds
📅 MI, 26.03.25, 20:15 Uhr
📍 Cinematograph Innsbruck
#GameStudies #Gaming #Computerspiele #Videospiele #space
24.3.2025 10:27Für alle Videospielfans und jene, die es noch werden wollen: die Forschungsgruppe Game Studies der @uniinnsbruck lädt zur interaktiven...Praxisnah und vielseitig im Hörsaal: vier Beispiele zeigen, wie Studierende auch gesellschaftliche Impulse setzen können. Darunter ein #DigitalScience-Projekt, bei dem datenbasierte Analysen zur Einrichtung neuer Citybike-Stationen geführt haben: https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/2025/praxisnah-und-vielseitig-im-horsaal/
21.3.2025 09:35Praxisnah und vielseitig im Hörsaal: vier Beispiele zeigen, wie Studierende auch gesellschaftliche Impulse setzen können....📢 Veranstaltungstipp für Innsbrucker:innen 📢
Heute um 18:30 Uhr erfahren Sie im Stadtteiltreff Wilten alles, was Sie immer schon über Computerspiele wissen wollten: https://www.stadtteiltreff-wilten.at/de/termine/termine/77-0.html
Tobias Unterhuber & Gernot Howanitz @ghowa der Forschungsgruppe Game Studies freuen sich auf Sie!
#Computerspiele #Videospiele #GameStudies #Gaming
18.3.2025 09:13📢 Veranstaltungstipp für Innsbrucker:innen 📢Heute um 18:30 Uhr erfahren Sie im Stadtteiltreff Wilten alles, was Sie immer schon über...Don't miss today's #DiSCourseSeminar with Hauke Licht, DiSC & @PolSciUIBK, at 12:00 (CET) at DiSC, Innrain 15, 6020 Innsbruck or on Big Blue Button: https://webconference.uibk.ac.at/b/car-aab-cxf-o81
Topic: Metadata-aware transformer fine-tuning: Mitigating regression-to-mean bias in text classification
Learn more: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-licht/
#DigitalScience #PoliticalScience
14.3.2025 08:00Don't miss today's #DiSCourseSeminar with Hauke Licht, DiSC & @PolSciUIBK, at 12:00 (CET) at DiSC, Innrain 15, 6020 Innsbruck or...Did you supervise an excellent master's or doctoral thesis with a relation to aspects or methods of #digitalization written at @uniinnsbruck within the past year? Make your students aware of the #DiSCAward, sponsored by BE-terna: https://uibk.ac.at/en/research/research-funding/postdoc/disc-award/ 📢
3.3.2025 08:35Did you supervise an excellent master's or doctoral thesis with a relation to aspects or methods of #digitalization written at...Did you write a master's thesis or a dissertation with a relation to #digitalization at @uniinnsbruck within the past 12 months? You may be eligible for this year's Award for Digitalization Research, sponsored by BE-terna.
Check requirements here and apply: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/research/research-funding/postdoc/disc-award/
Spread the word! 📢
14.2.2025 14:22Did you write a master's thesis or a dissertation with a relation to #digitalization at @uniinnsbruck within the past 12 months? You may...Congratulations to Sébastien Court, Associate Professor at the Department of #Mathematics and the DiSC of @uniinnsbruck, for receiving the prestigious Research Award of the Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse for his recent, outstanding research papers with contributions to the theory of partial differential equations, particularly in the field of solid and fluid mechanics: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/news/research-award-court/
#SolidMechanics #FluidMechanics
6.2.2025 13:34Congratulations to Sébastien Court, Associate Professor at the Department of #Mathematics and the DiSC of @uniinnsbruck, for receiving the...The #IVB built two new #citybike stations in Innsbruck - and the coolest thing about them: They were proposed in a student project in the Data Analysis Lab of the Minor #DigitalScience!
Students Daniel Hillebrand and Kilian Epple developed a data-based approach for identifying promising new rental #bike locations and wrote about their methodology and findings in the DiSC Blog:
https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/blog/bike-sharing-innsbruck/
Don't miss today's #DiSCourseSeminar with Alexandra Zachariadou, visiting PhD researcher at DiSC upon invitation by @lrr, at noon. Join us at DiSC, Innrain 15, 6020 Innsbruck or online: https://webconference.uibk.ac.at/b/car-aab-cxf-o81
Topic: Taxonomic and functional diversity of marine #microbiota🦠in multi-stressed coastal sites at the Hellenic Arc 🇬🇷🌋
24.1.2025 08:52Don't miss today's #DiSCourseSeminar with Alexandra Zachariadou, visiting PhD researcher at DiSC upon invitation by @lrr, at noon....📢Don't miss tomorrow's Kick-off Event of the Quantum #TechDiplomacyTalk series! 📢
On: Introduction to Quantum #TechDiplomacy – #Geopolitics, #Innovation, #Governance and #Ethics
With: @MatthiasKettemann from
the Department of Legal Theory and Future of Law, director of the Innsbruck Quantum Ethics Lab #IQEL and associated researcher at the DiSC, and others: https://uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/techdiplomacytalk/
Follow the live stream from 14:00 (CET) on the BMEIA YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/live/B2LjcPCBhjU
23.1.2025 12:21📢Don't miss tomorrow's Kick-off Event of the Quantum #TechDiplomacyTalk series! 📢On: Introduction to Quantum #TechDiplomacy...Join us on Friday, 12:00 (CET) for another #DiSCourseSeminar!
🔬: Taxonomic and functional diversity of marine microbiota in multi-stressed coastal sites along the Hellenic Volcanic Arc
👩🔬: Alexandra Zachariadou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 🇬🇷
📍: Onsite at DiSC or online on Big Blue Button
🔗 https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-zachariadou/
We'd like to invite you to a talk on taxonomic and functional diversity of marine microbiota in multi-stressed coastal sites along the Hellenic Volcanic Arc by Alexandra Zachariadou at our next #DiSCourseSeminar on 24 January at noon: https://uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-zachariadou/ 🤓
Alexandra is a guest speaker from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens who is currently a visiting researcher at DiSC upon invitation of @lrr.
#marinebiology #marineecology #volcano #microbiology
20.1.2025 09:26We'd like to invite you to a talk on taxonomic and functional diversity of marine microbiota in multi-stressed coastal sites along the...Proud to announce that the Research Center #SustainableBuilding has joined the DiSC umbrella. 🎉 It focuses on the development of resource-efficient structures and buildings for the future at the interface of #Architecture, #TechnicalSciences and #computerscience . We're looking forward to a fruitful interdisciplinary exchange in research and teaching! 🤓🥂
Learn more here: https://uibk.ac.at/en/fz-sustainable-building/
#BigData #MachineLearning #DigitalTwin #IoT #urban #rural #EnergyEfficiency #DigitalInfrastructure
15.1.2025 09:01Proud to announce that the Research Center #SustainableBuilding has joined the DiSC umbrella. 🎉 It focuses on the development of...@ORF_Tirol @uniinnsbruck
Der #CitizenScience-Ansatz, also die Einbindung der Schüler:innen und Lehrkräfte in die Datenerhebung, trägt zudem zur Bewusstseinsbildung für Zusammenhänge zwischen #Raumluftqualität, thermischem Komfort und #Energieeffizienz bei. Mehr dazu hier: https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/2024/video-bessere-luft-im-klassenzimmer/
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@ORF_Tirol @uniinnsbruck
Daraus können die Forschenden Schlüsse über die Wirksamkeit von Interventionsmaßnahmen, wie der Einführung einer Lüftungsampel zum händischen #Lüften oder dem Einbau von Lüftungsanlagen, ziehen. Am Ende soll das OEAD-geförderte Projekt zu Handlungsempfehlungen für #Politik, #Medizin und #Haustechnik führen.
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